Major League Baseball’s most prolific streak remains active. With the Dodgers winning the 2025 World Series over the Blue Jays, Will Smith has won a championship for six straight years, dating back to
2020.
The Dodgers catcher accounts for the last two of those titles as well as the first in the string, with the veteran relief pitcher filling in three championships in the middle, and with three different teams.
Will Smith consecutive World Series wins
- 2020 Dodgers (catcher)
- 2021 Braves (pitcher)
- 2022 Astros (pitcher)
- 2023 Rangers (pitcher)
- 2024 Dodgers (catcher)
- 2025 Dodgers (catcher)
Smith for the Dodgers this postseason worked his way back from a hairline fracture in his right hand suffered on a foul ball in Pittsburgh on September 3, which limited the catcher to just playing just once in the final 23 games of the regular season. He was active for the wild card round but did not play, and entered the first two games of the National League Division Series in reserve mid-game and caught the rest of the way.
Smith drove in the go-ahead runs in wins in Games 2 and 6 in Toronto, and capped it off by hitting the championship-winning home run in the 11th inning of Game 7, capping off a World Series in which he hit .267/.353/.533 with six runs batted in.
Beginning with Game 3 of the NLDS, Smith caught every inning of the Dodgers’ last 13 games, including all 18 innings of Game 3 of the World Series and 11 innings in Game 7 of the Fall Classic. In all, he caught 73 innings against the Blue Jays, eight games worth of squatting crammed into seven games. It’s the most innings caught in a single World Series.
Most innings caught, World Series
- Will Smith 73 innings, 2025 Dodgers
- Lou Criger 71 innings, 1903 Boston Red Sox (Americans)
Criger started all eight games in the first World Series, a best-of-nine affair.
